Don't Blame Me! - SYNT: Unlicensed Friend Borrowing Car

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Meghan and Melisa share the results from But Am I Wrong: Unlicensed Friend Borrowing Car. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

great news the federal ev rebate is back eligible customers get up to five thousand dollars with the federal evap rebate on select 2027 volt and 2026 equinox ev models visit your local chevrolet dealer today for more details hi greetings and salutations hello welcome to a brand new episode of see you next tuesday and then i couldn't even say tuesday it's okay sometimes words are hard almond bits in my nothing gets my tongue tied like an almond bit because sometimes it's sticky and then your your gums are stuck together or then other times it's just but greedy there's a nodule yeah and it's stuck in your tooth and then you can't focus right now so i have a permanent version of that right now because i did get a filling

read on and it is uneven and i need to go like shave more of it down um but i unfortunately have don't you grind your teeth yes so it'll probably come down anyway it's too much she also wants me to really stop grinding my teeth so i was like it'll be fine i'll leave them like this and she was like no no yeah i have to get a um retainer yeah um but she was like she literally was like sand like like sanding down my one of my bottom teeth to try and make it fit better because she's like your teeth are just like they're so fucking jagged and i found out that the reason why so my front teeth like you know i heard they call them but like when you're a little kid your front teeth have like those ridges like they look like ruffles on the bottom

of them and they as you get older you lose them yeah because you're grinding your teeth mine never went down and so i had to have my dentist shave him down as an adult because i said why do i have these giant child's teeth and it is because my top teeth are angled in such a way that like they're not getting they're not touching much to get grinded out ground down in that way um but um i can like feel it in my tooth where i'm like it doesn't doesn't align right now but that's my story so we are going to read the results of last week's episode of but am i wrong and your thoughts and feelings about all of them so shall we dive in before we get into that i want to share some thoughts that people had on spotify do you think i should sell my piss

no we've already made why are we repeating conversations we were talking about the session and i wondered if your no you said change it's just good to just do a temperature check why did you think that my thoughts had changed it's always good to ask questions okay all right well um here's some thoughts from spotify just remember that you can leave episode specific thoughts there someone said megan this entire look well i'll say your name because it's public aurelia a u r a u r e l i a aurelia aurelia may megan this entire look is a slay what were they wearing i think that was your nope it wasn't the librarian look was it i don't know we'll have to look back at it because i've not been feeling like i've been saying lately so if i was slaying

it's good to know great and then tori heck said sorry for spelling your name wrong melissa and you spelled it wrong here so you're forgiven wait they spelled it wrong again no no they spelled it right here sorry you spelled it right here so you're forgiven all right so let's get into the thoughts and feelings from this episode do you know how tired i was yesterday i put it on my my main page at first yeah i've made mistakes like that i said oopsie at least it wasn't on your burner account not that anybody would see it because it's a lockdown you'd see i'd see it yeah i think i've done that once this is for episode 135 and you are up first melissa wants to bring back journalists on red carpet and then you did an x out of her partner in crime no that's the

baby face oh okay except don't bring this one five percent said i was wrong 95 said it was not wrong i need to ask you after we're done um about some trades to do all right somebody says trades yeah monopoly oh i thought you meant like turning trades no no no like sex work i was like you went there instead of like the trades for our industry yeah i did that word does have a lot of meaning no it really does now i think about it and none of them are related no and i don't think i realized that for me turning like trade immediately i go turning trade maybe that's just where i'm at in my life right now because i've been talking about selling piss yeah yeah all right someone said i click oh your thoughts don't matter stop my someone said my expect no i'm just saying they

clicked wrong so it doesn't matter no but just the way you said that was fucking hilarious nope your thoughts don't matter someone said my exception is drew because i love double standards for my own people i i agree i just missed i'm a huge believer in double standards for my own personal taste and preference yeah because we have good taste and good preference yeah i gave a a precursor when i did it to people that i said it was okay with i'm also okay with teffy yeah i said teffy when exactly someone else said uh i can't believe she said this and then doubled down on it does she have no shame megan deserved better agree yeah she also apparently did the same thing when they got a new cast member sierra who's a black woman on summer house

and she was like oh girl you're gonna make me like pull out my brooklyn and like implying and sarah's from like the south weirdo and it was like hannah you're from brooklyn if anything you're making other people bring their brooklyn right and also i'm like you're different kind of you played tennis competitively like okay i don't think it's the same brooklyn that i don't think you were on the same block that jayla was running that was the bronx just in case anyone thought i didn't know but here in this house we do defend jayla get your tickets now for the dog stars it's no surprise how fast civilization can disappear

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Terms apply. Another person said, I obviously agree, but Megan's point about you, as in you but megan's point about yeah megan's point about journalists can be racist too is a good point maybe let's not have any reality tv people interviewing people okay that's actually not a bad call like because i'm thinking now i'm like well what reality tv personality i'm like they should be yeah maybe not someone else said okay not wrong however i think there's opportunity to bring influence of color particularly those in the fashion space to the red carpet as interviewers but right now the influencer to red carpet pipeline is clearly of a certain complexion

lacking color yep yeah i do think that like that like the fashion focus of it has been kind of removed for good reason because they were body shaming yeah and and it also just like just becomes about like it becomes about fashion for the women but it never was that for the men and so like it just becomes like a very uneven sort of thing and like it's you know it's just a lot so like i think that like the fashion is fun but in general in hollywood i think should always be secondary because like it is like adjacent to the fashion industry but it's not it's not fashion like there is like fashion awards there is that kind of stuff with people who can be who can also be answering questions well like sometimes people are just wearing the clothes that

they put on their body because and we've heard things of celebrities who are like yeah no they won't brands won't dress me unless i'm sample size like yep someone else said melissa's not wrong at all but i don't think being a journalist would have stopped her from saying this i think the argument is let's influence her versus journalists instead why companies keep hiring people who can't present without vetting them properly but journalists do go through a vetting that's the difference is that there's a journalistic integrity and so if you're already there is like just a different level that they would be going through well and it's also for the vast majority they work for the company it's their it's their job it's not a one-off like it's

their job to have something to report to it's not that they won't just get at like knock at us back the next time like it's not a one-off yeah and it's a it's a career in that instance and then someone else said melissa is not wrong but petition for amelia chicken shop girl to also be added to a list of exceptions she isn't a journalist but girl does her research she's a journalist she is she uh the how chicken shop started was that she was writing a column yeah and she also studied fashion in school as well and communication so she is part of the correct people that i would like there she's also not a host she's right it's her show yeah she's doing the show she created the show she produces like that's her whole thing but no she's she is a she

is a journalist yep um and i say this as someone who has done red carpet interviews i am not a journalist and they're not when you're hiring people who don't have experience in this you're looking for viral moments you're looking for memes you're looking for funny bits you're not looking for like insightful interviews but you can't do an insightful interview unless you know the people you're talking to like the amount of fucking interviews i have done that are so bad so surface level because i'm like they don't let me know who's coming so i can't prep for you so i haven't prepped for you so this can't be personal we can't have a funny he he ha ha moment because we can't connect like that because neither of us know why the fuck we're there

yep and then someone else said i would say that this is another example of people lacking self-awareness but this is also so clearly the opposite white bitches like this want black women to not only be the ones to hype them up and nurture slash care for them but also views us as aggressive and violent aka making them want to fight it's all around disgusting and this is why we like to gatekeep shit yep then another person said it's literally so embarrassing watching that like what megan the stallion songs make you want to fight all her songs except his are about having fun i'll add in mental health too all her songs except his are about having fun and being a hot girl doing hot shit spend his income on my outfit i don't text quit because i ain't thirsty these

bitches mad mad they want to hurt me i messed up the last part but i'm not a lyricist the only song that would be acceptable is never play which is a wwe smackdown theme song but that's really it Yeah, yep, yep. I just don't believe she listens to her music. I think she might listen, but just for the beat, and it's not actually listening to the songs. Yeah, I think she has heard her. I think she's heard, and then her association with Black women is aggression.

Yep. And therefore, for her, that's a totally logical thing to say. Nope. Nope, no, no. and also i can't get over the fact of like just how the added layer of the domestic violence aspect of it that i'm just like that is something where if it was a different context and like a white woman saying something and then being like or talking about like i don't know like you make a joke about like divorce or some you know shitty dudes to like angelina jolie like someone who's

publicly been and then going like yeah let me cover like totally flubbing and forgetting that aspect of it but like she had multiple acts of macroaggressions and then like that person necessarily said like triple down on it like there is no like oh i was just excited and nervous and by the way this was a job you can't just be like so i was just excited and nervous and then you're not ready for the job like nope this isn't about you someone said obviously what she said was wrong and unprofessional but we have to take the good and bad and the ugly with the influencer culture that we live in why why shouldn't we hold people to a professional standard also and then what do we benefit from right i mean like if it's like if it's a trade-off what's the trade-off because

this is supposed to be entertainment and it's not entertaining it's offensive i say raise your standards i don't know if it's like we should expect this with influencer world that we're in that like people are going to hire influencers and when you're hiring influencers they're not going to be you know like you said they're not going to be vetted in the same way or if it's like we take the good with the bad because i'm like i guess i don't know what the good is of this right get your tickets now for the dark stars it's no surprise how fast civilization can disappear a therapist kill or be killed jacob elodi there are people out there they need our help josh

roland shoot first and inquire afterwards margaret qualley okay tough guy and guy pierce arm up the dog stars directed by ridley scott in theaters friday get tickets now okay then we have megan thinks you should only be allowed to be nominated for one oscar 29 said i was wrong 71 said i was not wrong i'll have to tell mox about this because it's really is someone said too many award shows and you can win multiples of so many of them it's like saying the same word too much it loses meaning after a while also give new talent a chance geez i do think that part too because like industry wise there are certain ones that like people are like this doesn't matter like this isn't a real it doesn't matter this one doesn't count but it's

like okay but then you won that and then like it's there are i think in the sense of like yeah there's so many so therefore sweeping all of them or getting all of them except for missing one and then being upset about that one unless it counts toward towards an egot it's not even like you got get paid for it and a lot of times it doesn't even help your career sometimes most of the times it's a curse if you're a woman yeah god forbid you see a little too much that was i would say the downfall of both jennifer lawrence and um and hathaway yep someone said i agree with the one per per category it might be dull to watch sean baker win three in a night but i don't think him getting editor award should have disqualified him from director yeah i agree with that also

because he's he's like one of the only ones who's going to be winning both of those because most directors aren't editing no i edit and it's a bane of my existence and i don't edit everything i only edit like like i edit this because we have quick turns arounds and i don't want our editor like working on this when they should be working on don't blame me and put them at wrong but yeah that's not i think in general if someone's going to win all categories for like in front of the camera and behind the cameras i'd like sean baker is one of the one of the few people who would even be eligible for multiple someone said yes but only for the bitches i don't like slash don't know i'll combat you on the people you don't know because i do think it's good when people win

awards that we have no idea who they are because you know it's not just popularity contest uh but for bitches we don't like without a doubt then we've got writer number one are they wrong for not letting their friend use their car for driver's tests four percent said the writer is wrong 96 said the writer is not wrong someone said assert your boundaries another person said why is this even a question the writer is not wrong someone else said i don't think this person is a friend a friend doesn't keep asking after a reasonable explanation someone else said it's crazy how people will ask for something as if they're giving you the option to volunteer up your possessions then get mad at you when you draw a boundary and say no if she has the money to use

the school's car then she might as well just go that route i also let a friend borrow my car for a driver's test once but mine didn't even pass the inspection to be used so there's never a guarantee if she waited this long to get her license then she has found other ways to use a car and get around that wasn't depending on the writer so she needs to put on her big girl draws and figure it out literally i feel the exact same way like put on your thinking cap if you manage to make it this far in life as someone who didn't get their driving license until 19 you gotta be scrap like you have to be even more scrappy than me like where did all that scrap where did scrappy do go find scrappy do someone else said i had to borrow a car for my test because it required the e-brake

to be in the middle and not a pedal but if there was a way to pay to rent from the test facility i would have done that instead holy shit there are cars where you have an emergency brake pedal like that's so dangerous right i had my older car like when i was first learning well no it was suvs the suvs usually have that pedal up at the top the ones that i had in the past it might have been it's changed since then but like my blazer that i had the pedal was up there then the suburban i maybe it's just a chevy thing the suburban i would uh have from my um mom's friend that was up there was it a lever or something you like you just move your foot no you moved your foot to be the part but it's like emergency break yeah but it's up like it's not like right by where

the pedals are it was up a little bit so you literally had to like raise your foot up and do it it wasn't right next to it okay because i know that like i've seen them in like my family's old cars where it's like a like a lever somewhere on the other side like no i know what you're talking about the ones that you do this no this is like on the left hand side um it was closer to where your knee is than where your foot is and so you'd have to lift your foot up and put it down wow that's stressful it wasn't though because it's not like by anything i guess that's true if it's really by where your knee is yeah i'd have to kick one leg out of the car and put the other one back in that but again you're in like suvs

so they're like there's so much space yeah big big big cars yeah that makes sense i'm hungry i'm very hungry and i think i actually need to order something because i don't know i'm trying to think of like what the hell i have to eat the writer also wrote in with an update she failed her test shocked she was on a two-lane road and her instructor told her to continue straight and she took that literally even though the road was curving to the left so she ended up going into the right lane without even checking her mirrors or turning signal which is an instant fail i feel so vindicated that i didn't lend her my car also we're currently living in the bay area but she's from the suburbs of dc she doesn't have driving anxiety but she has openly admitted to just using

people for rides during high school and college she's for sure currently using me to get rides every weekend wow whoa i need to know what location she tried to take the test in oh yeah you've talked about how there's one that's like harder than the others the marine one is diabolical and josie passed there and i think josie passed on her first time which i was like that's insane i went i have been i think i've taken a test at every dmv in the bay area and i even ventured into the east bay like i fully was i was crossing all the bridges to like where can i go um but uh that is like an annoying one for me because like the first time i failed oh my god i was so fucking annoyed because it was like a trick question which they're not supposed to do

i took a big break after this because i was like traumatized i think i must have been like 17 maybe on this one couldn't get until i was 19 they told me to like make a right turn and it did it said like no right on red it was something like about like you're not supposed to do this and they were like okay now make a right turn and i was like i'm not supposed to they're like make a right turn and then i was like well i'm not i i don't i'm not supposed to and then they were like make a right turn i made a right turn they're like can't make a right turn and i was like why did you tell you do this like three times like if it was a test which again you're not supposed to do like that i i do feel like i passed why did you insist and then it like i literally was like

pulling out of the the the the parking lot and then like just made a full loop right back and i was like okay messed up so when they do tricks like that and you fail from something you actually do that's to me i'm like okay that's it's wild mountain view is easy to pass him i think when i was there was it livermore vallejo vallejo was actually a little bit harder but anyways one month and i were driving through norcal i was just pointing out all the different places he was like this is like 10 places and i was like yeah yeah that's not uncommon at volvo safety is not a feature it's our purpose rigorous crash testing decades of learning from real accidents innovations that help prevent accidents before they happen and help protect

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Then we have my wrong of the week, Deputy Marvin Morales. 97% said that Morales is wrong. 3% said Morales is not wrong. Someone said, wait, his actual name is Morales? Because how ironic. new nickname to be no morals morales well he doesn't have a job yeah also it's the police they don't morals is not something that they are familiar with let alone interested in yeah nor do they value and that's why i hope the guy who he worked with like gets out because like fucking like that's not a part of your job and it's so fucking traumatizing but that guy had to know that he was using because why would why would you just automatically give him narcan and to me that's like that's not the first time it's happened no i'm like the it's just gonna get

more and more traumatizing get out of this work like don't do this job this is not this should not ever be a prerequisite of your job and like he uses himself to be honest the issue is is that it's not that no one knows and turning off the camera like yeah it's just like i i think there i also think there should be you should be penalized as an employer for uh hiding someone's substance use when it is in they are putting that they're putting themselves or other people in harm's way let alone like the community in harm's way um i just think it's like it's not it's not like a harmless thing whatsoever and like yeah you shouldn't be letting because if they're like well he says he's fine to work like he is

not of right mind like he is not doing well so as an employer i think it is your responsibility and your job to be like no you can't do this that was it okay then we have my wrong of the week i nominated zachary's daiquiris or zach's dax 97 said they're wrong three percent said they're not wrong and i did include a little picture of the dress code policy which still to this day for this location does not say anything about jordan you're right the pictures do look similar as i'm trying to scroll through someone said i watched southern charm and southern hospitality leva was not really on either show this season i liked her the first few seasons but she really started to annoy me

when she got her own show i was not surprised by her responses at all that's what i've seen online from people who are who are have continued to watch the shows that like they're not surprised by this but people were like if you had told me that season one version of her said this like i would have been shocked but like it doesn't seem like people aren't here being like this is so out of character for her at all someone said wrong and not that it's needed to make it valid but there is a phenomenon in legal scholarship called velvet rope discrimination that allows businesses to avoid discrimination lawsuits through vague subjective dress codes gender-based pricing etc yeah i mean she's been skating by with that at all of her other establishments um

and yeah this is like people have been saying this about where she is where she like all of her places for years oh someone said i just want to say this episode of the podcast was very entertaining thank you thanks i love a compliment someone else said i just wish racist people would stop existing do i need to read it no but it is just funny so if billy eilish comes in dressed like a stud are they going to tell her to leave too or is it only when black people do it Valid Points are made It's a really good point

And that is it And that was our episode Of See You Next Tuesday I hope you were entertained Just like the writer was Or the reviewer was The listener join us on thursday for don't blame me friday for fisting friday monday for but am i wrong

and then back here for another rousing episode of see you next tuesday yay and we will see oh i fucked up whoa that's fine i love when you fuck up because it it like makes it make any of this account slightly even though it's so to me we will see you next tuesday this is a sister sign production hosted by me megan rinks and me melissa d montz plus diamond imprint productions